Hawfinch

Coccothraustes coccothraustes coccothraustes (Linnaeus, 1758)

Description

Head and top upper tail coverts are brown-buff, the mantle and upper lesser wing coverts dark-chestnut. Grey colour on upper back, white colour on belly, around of black throat spot developed less than in humii. Underparts are vinous greyish-brownish.

Distribution

Occasionally breeds in Western Altai, where on Ubinskiy ridge fledgling observed in 1971, broods recorded at Ridder and near Ust-Kamenogorsk, and birds building the nest observed 2 May 1982 near Buran village in Chernyy Irtysh valley. It observed twice in mid-June on Markakol lake. On migration occurs almost everywhere in Kazakhstan, from Volga-Ural area, where common in Ural valley, and Mangyshlak eastward to Irtysh valley between Pavlodar and Ust-Kamenogorsk, on Markakol lake in Altai, in lower current of Ile river, Almaty, at Zlikha at lower Sarysu river adult bird caught 9 August 1986 and young one 19 September 1982, in Syrdarya valley, in foothills of Talasskiy Alatau, in Shymkent and Tashkent.